Church Cottage

Church Cottage is a former priest's house that is believed to date from around 1470. Originally featuring a first-floor hall, it has since been divided into three cottages, then two, and is now a single house. The building was extended, likely in the 18th or 19th century, and underwent further alterations and extensions in the 20th century.

It is constructed from limestone rubble with dressed stone quoins and has a stone slate roof with restored ashlar stacks. The rectangular plan includes a single-storey extension to the east gable end from the 18th or 19th century, with an upper storey added in the mid-20th century. The house has one and a half storeys and features one 2-light and two 3-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned casements with stopped hoods on the ground floor, along with three 20th-century half dormers. The lower left-hand window is set within the blocking of a wide doorway with dressed stone jambs. There is a central doorway from the 20th century with six glazed panes at the top and a stone canopy on stone brackets above. A projecting stack is located at the left gable end, while the former gable-end stack is now part of the extension to the east gable end.

On the churchyard front, there is one single-light and two 2-light casements with glazing bars and timber lintels on the ground floor, a single-light stair light with a concrete lintel between the two floors off-centre right, a single-light 20th-century half dormer with a concrete lintel upper left, and a 2-light 20th-century gabled roof dormer upper right.

Inside, the cottage features beams with deep flat chamfers and run-out stops, as well as an open fireplace with a bread oven. The medieval roof, which is visible above the 20th-century plastered ceilings in the first-floor rooms, consists of three bays with arch-braced collar beams, a halved apex, double butt purlins, and some single curved windbraces. The south side of the house overlooks the graveyard and church.